1Northern Utah Golden hills along the interstate. Heading for the next Walmart.
2Utah Cottonwoods
3Painting Moab Our BLM camp site along the Colorado River next to Arches NP.
4Arches National Park
5Park Avenue An amazing little valley in Arches NP.
6Lost Juniper Near the north end of Park Avenue.
7Balancing Rock Arches NP
8Painting the Arch Arches NP
9Arches Trail
10Double Arches
11Dead Horse Point A Utah State Park west of Moab. Looking down on the Colorado River.
12Lizard
13Canyonlands National Park The Colorado River below.
14Canyonlands Juniper
15Sunset near camp
16Canyonlands
17Red Rock & Old Juniper
18Canyonlands Again
19More Juniper Canyonlands NP
20On the Edge Canyonlands NP
21Colorado Farmlands
22Ouray, Colorado North of Durango and Silverton.
23On the Homestead ... near Durango Colorado with our niece, Molly. This land was homesteaded by our niece's husband's (Kevin's) family, going back many generations. That's Kevin there scooping apples. We just finished a hike through hunting areas, hince the orange fashions.
24Chaco Culture NHP Otherwish known as Chaco Canyon. This was once the spiritual center of the Chacos - a vast area of scrub desert covering western New Mexico and into eastern Arizona. These earliest ruins date back to around 850 AD. The Chacos left their expansive development around 1200 AD.
25Great Kiva Chaco Culture NHP. The Great Kiva is a huge circular spiritual meeting place that was originally covered. The two entrances are aligned directly north-south and these points are exactly south of another complex about 20 km. away.
26Puebla Bonita Chaco Culture NHP. The ruins of the largest building showing where a huge rock slab fell on one end in the 40s.
27Inside Puebla Bonita Many internal rooms with no obvious purpose..... maybe just make the building large.
28Chetro Kiva Chaco Culture NHP, New Mexico.
29Small Kivas
30Puebla Bonita Outside The window (actually a long slot) on the left is used as a calendar when the sun shines through the slot on the wall behind.
31Chaco Camp Rainbow Yes, we did get a bit of thunder and rain.
32Rainbow Too
33Chaco Camp View
34Northern Mexico This strange desert is about 200 km south of the Texas border. Joshua Trees?
35San Miguel Window In San Miguel de Allende, about 200 km north of Mexico City.
36Iglesia San Antonio The church just around the corner from our RV Park.
37Calle Jesus There are many cobble-stone streets like this here, with brightly colored walls and old doors and windows. When the sun is low there is an orange reflection onto the shady side of the steet.
38The Bird Store Day of the Dead decorations.
39Centro San Miguel
40La Parroquia in San Miguel de Allende
41Heading into Church
42Into Church "Topaz Simplify" Filter in Photoshop
43 Up the hill
44 Beer on the plaza
45La Parroquia Yes, its really pink.
46in San Miguel de Allende, November 2011 Jan & Dave in San Miguel de Allende
47Parroquia de San Miguel Arcangel - the parish church or "The Parroquia"
48Wedding at The Parroquia
49Calle Canal View
50Dead Couple Check out the great material. There are some really cool (dead theme) shirts and aprons too.
51The get-away
52San Miguel de Allende More photos from our 6 week stay in the central Mexico city of San Miguel de Allende.
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53Heading up to the plaza
54Senor Balloon
55Folk Dancers 1
56Folk Dancer 2
57Folk Dancers 3
58Revolution Parade Show
59Parade Girl
60Busy Mariachi Yes, he was still strumming while he took the call. I guess he didn't need the correct chord.
61Side Street Wall
62Santa Cruz de Chorro A convent converted to music shool and activity centre.
63Looking over the country-side
64Street Vendors
65San Antonio Church Evening activities in the church plaza.
66Famous Gas Pump
67Sunset over San Antonio Church
68Sunset over centro
69What a view!
70The Parroquia Looking up.
71Plaza de Soledad
72Talevara Shopping
73Agave!
74The Bra Tent At the local Tuesday Market.
75Juanita & Maestra Rocio - with Jan's spanish teacher, Rocio.
76Parroquia at night
77Templo de Oratorio
78Guadalupe Day Celebrations San Antonio Church, near our campground is the religious center for the local ranchers. So on Guadalupe Day they parade into town on horses to the church.
79San Antonio Church On Guadalupe Day.
80Guadalupe Day Band
81Guadalupe Dancers?
82Aztec Dancer & Family
83Big Band Celebration
84San Miguel Side-street
85Last Shot of San Miguel
86El Sierra Madre From the road above Compostela.
87Jan & Dave We made it to Lo de Marcos!
88Venanos Beach (or John Lennon Beach)
89Rincon Sailors
90Lo de Marcos Plaza
91The Jungle
92Lo de Marcos Countryside Heading up the hill, I believe.
93Isle Marie's Strange Rose
94El Swamp
95The Hill Gang A typical morning hikers bunch but without Norbert.
96Bucerias Plaza
97Ballon Launch Several of these were made by fellow campers and launched from the beach at night. They are made from paper and use a fuel-soaked cloth "doughnut" for the flame ..... pretty amazing how high they went.
98Punta Raza Hike Hey Norbert .... Where are we anyway?
Oh well,..... nice view.
99The View Above Los Ayala
100Punta Raza Hike
101Punta Raza e Juanita
102Lo de Marcos Sunset
103Paddle Board Lesson
104Dry Dock
105coming in
106Mexico 2012
107Happy Hour!
108El Menu
109Lo de Marcos beach The hill in the distance is summited most mornings.
110The Road Home (Oh, oh ..... That should be Saguaro NP)
111Huatabampito Beach A most fantastic sunset!
This is small beach resort just south of Navojoa, between Mazatlan and the border.
112Lo de Marcos and The Road Home After a wonderful time in the interior city of San Miguel de Allende, we headed west to meet up with buddies and the beach in Lo de Marcos.
In late March we headed up the west coast, entering the US at Nogales, Arizona. Then camped and hiked around central Arizona before making the bee-line up I-5 home.
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